Angela Edwards seeks to recover her Italian heritage in short stories and poetry. We must remind ourselves that all immigrants have such rich histories.
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Honoring Our Immigrant Past
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America: Indivisible Despite the Divides
As the American election hangs in the balance, Alicia Ostriker holds two contradictory visions of America in balance.
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Gorman Dares Us to Dream Together
Amanda Gorman’s Democratic National Convention poem celebrated an all-inclusive vision of America.
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Would Willy Loman Be a Trump Supporter?
Donald Trump as Willy Loman? Well, both are dreamers. Only one of them, however, is cruel.
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Bridges and the American Dream
The Key Bridge disaster–and doubts about America’s response–brings to mind Hart Crane’s bridge poem, a hymn to America aspiring to greatness.
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Knives Out and the American Dream
The movie “Knives Out” is satisfying but leaves unquestioned the American Dream.
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Will Trump Turn Us into Goodman Brown?
The disillusion of Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown may prove to be America’s in a post-Trump world.
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Happiness Based on Another’s Oppression
To understand why the race card is so politically effective, reading Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”
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